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Eliminate the “idle tax” to reclaim 40% of your cloud spend and secure CSRD compliance.

AI that understands human insight and connects it to the changes that drive real incidents. At Harness, our story has always been about change — helping teams ship faster, deploy safer, and control the blast radius of every modification to production. Deployments, feature flags, pipelines, and governance are all expressions of how organizations evolve their software. Today, the pace of change is accelerating.

With all we’ve seen from AI in the last several years, it can be easy to forget that it’s still in its very early days. As torrid as its evolution has been thus far, it will only intensify. As SVP of Engineering at a B2B SaaS company, I’ve had a front-row seat for much of this evolution. Here are three ways I see AI heading in 2026.

Anyone who has ever attempted to learn the guitar knows the lure of buying high-end gear. Surely, an expensive guitar and a best-in-class amplifier will hide the fact that you only know a few chords and maybe the lead line to that one song you keep hearing on the radio. What most players find out, however, is that spending thousands of dollars on gear doesn't change the fact that you're not that good yet.

Going on-call for the first time can feel a bit overwhelming, but a little prep work makes it smooth and stress-free. This guide covers five things to set up before you start your first on-call shift. They help you stay on top of your schedule, get on-call notifications, and have a backup in place. By the end, you’ll be ready to handle your first on-call shift with confidence.

Data is the backbone of the modern economy, but if you don’t have control of the infrastructure, you don’t control the data. Historically, data sovereignty was a compliance checkbox, something for the legal team to handle. Today, it’s a strategic national priority. At Civo Navigate, we sat down with industry experts to unpack why India is now placing sovereignty at the centre of its digital strategies.

From cloud on-ramps to virtual edge services, Megaport’s expansion into India from March 2026 will support modern network design in the market. India’s digital economy is growing at incredible speed. Cloud and AI adoption is accelerating, data volumes are scaling, and more businesses are designing architectures that extend well beyond a single data center or cloud region.

Last year, we collaborated with two design student teams from Loughborough University in the UK. These students were challenged to work on open source project briefs. Team 1 focused on non-code contributions, while Team 2’s brief was to create a unified documentation experience, giving them a chance to apply their design skills to real-world problems within the open source ecosystem.